# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Chassix, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088894` · 8/28/2018 · COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Chassix, Inc.
- **Location:** 1558 Northside Industrial Blvd, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, 31904
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in an aerial lift parked in a ladle transfer lane, diagnosing a mechanical issue with an empty iron ladle that would not move up and down. Another empty ladle struck him, briefly trapping him inside the lift basket. The heat coming from the ladle's heat shield burned his chest and forearms. He was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*